In her poetry Judith Wright explores the complex nature of personal and family relationships.
Judith Wright's poetry explores the complexity of personal and family relationships. Through her poems, she demonstrates this using various aspects of female sexuality through the relationship between a woman and her husband, child and inner self, responding and sharing the sensuality of natural life. Her 3 lyrical poems -- "Woman to Man-, "Woman to Child- and "Woman's Song- convey the complex levels of Wright's vision of life through symbolism, structure and covert language.
.
Wright has maintained a balance between the physical passion and spirituality between a woman and her husband. "Woman to Man- simulates the physical side of sex as passionate and intimate through a woman's perspective.
At the same time, Judith Wright manages to portray the miracle and wonder of a potential child - "the third who lay in our embrace- "in every act of sexual passion. .
Judith Wright describes her view on pregnancy. Many people may view pregnancy in a negative light, but through Wright's poetry, it can be viewed as a pleasant and incessant experience. In the first stanza in "woman to Child- she tells the readers her emotions towards her unborn child. In the line "where out of darkness rose the seed- she proclaims and embraces a woman's wonderful ability to create new life. She then follows on with the line, "then all a world I made in me/all the world you hear and see/hung upon my dreaming blood-, perhaps saying, this child within her means the world to her, and in return she created the life of her child, giving her child the world.
In her poem "Woman to Man-, personal pronouns such as I', my' and our' are used signifying her personal experience within the subject. Using personal pronouns further emphasizes the high level of intimacy that she shares with her husband: yet YOU and I have known it well.
